Tri-Star Arts produces annual contemporary art exhibition projects in Tennessee with a rotating statewide schedule. Additionally, their speaker series brings contemporary visual arts professionals to Tennessee to engage with the community through public talks, Q&A sessions, and speaker-selected studio visits. Tri-Star Arts serves Tennessee by spotlighting and growing the contemporary visual art scenes in each region and fostering a unified statewide art scene. Their programs promote art dialogue between the different cities in the state, and between the state and the nation.
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"Althea Murphy-Price,” Installation at Candoro Marble Building, Knoxville, 2021. Courtesy of Tri-Star Arts.
"Althea Murphy-Price,” Installation at Candoro Marble Building, Knoxville, 2021. Courtesy of Tri-Star Arts.
Hank Willis Thomas, “Ruth and Ernest Benches,” 2015. Installation in Memphis, TN. Courtesy of Tri-Star Arts.
Hank Willis Thomas, “Harriet and Annie (Capri),” 2018. Installation in Memphis, TN. Courtesy of Tri-Star Arts.
“Liminal Space” with Devon Gilfillian, video still, 2020. Courtesy of Tri-Star Arts.
“Women with their Work III: Materiality,” September 2018, was co-curated by SOE’s CEO and Co-Founder Peter Prinz and Dr. Jessica Dallow. Artists Sara Garden Armstrong, Erin Cunningham, Camille Goulet, Janice Kluge, and Beili Liu mark the final installment of the Women with their Work series and the thirteenth anniversary of SOE’s presentation of “Blue Angel: The Decline of Sexual Stereotypes in Post-Feminist Sculpture” by revisiting the physical form as well as the idea of “women’s work” in today’s art world.
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The Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program was launched in 2007 in celebration of the Foundation’s 20th Anniversary. This unprecedented program donated over 28,500 photographs by Andy Warhol to educational institutions across the United States. More than 180 college and university museums, galleries and art collections throughout the nation participated in the program, each receiving a curated selection of original Polaroid photographs and gelatin silver prints.